Fiber bundles, Yang-Mills theory, and general relativity

DOI10.1007/s11229-015-0849-3zbMath1406.70037arXiv1411.3281OpenAlexW2141603381MaRDI QIDQ516323

James Owen Weatherall

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3281

zbMATH Keywords

Yang-Mills theorygeneral relativityfiber bundle interpretationholonomy interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

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